#rednecks - Hello Poetry

Why aren't you ashamed Of yourself, your friends Of anyone around you That chooses to pretend That some people are Somehow lesser beings? How can you all sleep With that kind of feeling? Did somebody close to you Get inside of your mind And coach you every day To be deaf mute and blind To the beauty of people And all the good they do If they were created A bit different than you? Did some crazy crook On some show on teevee Tell you it will be fine If you hate them and me Because we demand The right to just be? Who has mistrained you To despise equality? If the people around you Hear such talk and approve Why did you not decide To get up and move? Instead you have chosen To point fingers and blame People who are innocent Why aren't you ashamed?

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Sep 22, 2016

Sep 22, 2016 at 3:38 PM UTC

brent-kincaid

WHY AREN'T YOU ASHAMED?

Why aren't you ashamed Of yourself, your friends Of anyone around you That chooses to pretend That some people are Somehow lesser beings? How can you all sleep With that kind of feeling? Did somebody close to you Get inside of your mind And coach you every day To be deaf mute and blind To the beauty of people And all the good they do If they were created A bit different than you? Did some crazy crook On some show on teevee Tell you it will be fine If you hate them and me Because we demand The right to just be? Who has mistrained you To despise equality? If the people around you Hear such talk and approve Why did you not decide To get up and move? Instead you have chosen To point fingers and blame People who are innocent Why aren't you ashamed?

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Bellicose beer-belled bad-asses Bawdily belting down brewskies Usually, boozily, bruisily beating On weaker, sleeker funseekers In the bar where they are, far From anything like maturity Hip hip hooray for unhip USA. Ballyhooing big screen viewing Myopic eyes watch others exercise Freedom-hating grouch on a couch Itching, ******** psoriasis and sloth Unread armchair Brother of the Cloth. One of the minions of opinions, Hardened against morality, reality. Saying it every day: USA, USA, USA! Hating, bating, aggravating, skating Right past solutions, conclusions Preferring propaganda, ***** Miranda, Stop mollycoddling, bottling up anger Christ in the manger should be law But they guffaw at reading The Book; They took their religion from TV. Freedom for me, not thee, in my USA. Got mine, ***** yours, rights immune; That tune don’t play here. No queers No browns, yellows, Hindus or Jews. I’ve got news you can use, I abuse And oppress guys in a dress, yes! Even if he’s white, it still ain’t right. The Constitution is old, it just teases. Mine is Republican Jesus for the USA. A pigeon for old time religion and God Everyone else is odd. I saw the movie. It was groovy and pretty. Went to the city Saw it in Imax, no blacks in the theater Thanks to The Creator that gave us all The intelligence to call things right. Hip hip hooray for being lily white. Hip hip hooray for the KKK USA.

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Apr 7, 2016

Apr 7, 2016 at 3:47 PM UTC

brent-kincaid

AMERICAN PATRIOT

Bellicose beer-belled bad-asses Bawdily belting down brewskies Usually, boozily, bruisily beating On weaker, sleeker funseekers In the bar where they are, far From anything like maturity Hip hip hooray for unhip USA. Ballyhooing big screen viewing Myopic eyes watch others exercise Freedom-hating grouch on a couch Itching, ******** psoriasis and sloth Unread armchair Brother of the Cloth. One of the minions of opinions, Hardened against morality, reality. Saying it every day: USA, USA, USA! Hating, bating, aggravating, skating Right past solutions, conclusions Preferring propaganda, ***** Miranda, Stop mollycoddling, bottling up anger Christ in the manger should be law But they guffaw at reading The Book; They took their religion from TV. Freedom for me, not thee, in my USA. Got mine, ***** yours, rights immune; That tune don’t play here. No queers No browns, yellows, Hindus or Jews. I’ve got news you can use, I abuse And oppress guys in a dress, yes! Even if he’s white, it still ain’t right. The Constitution is old, it just teases. Mine is Republican Jesus for the USA. A pigeon for old time religion and God Everyone else is odd. I saw the movie. It was groovy and pretty. Went to the city Saw it in Imax, no blacks in the theater Thanks to The Creator that gave us all The intelligence to call things right. Hip hip hooray for being lily white. Hip hip hooray for the KKK USA.

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I sat on a rock and stared At the wisps of cloud Obscuring the blue of the sky The grey drew nearer And I realized it was not merely grey But aqua, navy, burnt, and yellow I tried to scream No words left my mouth Then they left the sky Plummeted to the earth From the shelter I had taken only seconds before I saw them Those ducks Those stupid ducks Those stupid suicidal ducks Destroy what remained of my garden May one thousand starving rednecks boil you alive As I watch my garden be avenged.

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Oct 24, 2014

Oct 24, 2014 at 8:20 PM UTC

darcy-sahn

The Final Storm (a response to Ena Alysopriono)

I sat on a rock and stared At the wisps of cloud Obscuring the blue of the sky The grey drew nearer And I realized it was not merely grey But aqua, navy, burnt, and yellow I tried to scream No words left my mouth Then they left the sky Plummeted to the earth From the shelter I had taken only seconds before I saw them Those ducks Those stupid ducks Those stupid suicidal ducks Destroy what remained of my garden May one thousand starving rednecks boil you alive As I watch my garden be avenged.

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